New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-01
ADPOIT Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN.
THE sHlFrY POLITICIANS LAST RESORT.
HOPES OF FRIENDS AND FOES THAT HE WILL RE-
MAIN IN CANADA-THE FISHERY COMMIs-
sIoN-NoRTH HUNTS WON BY
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Copyright; 1887 The Men, York Trtbun&.
LONDON Aug. 31.-Mr. Chamberlain Is about to
become more interesting to YOU in America than he
has been for some time past over here. He has got
himself appointed. as you have doubtless heard
by this. to the presidency of the recon
structed Fishery Commission This IS an adroit
move of the clever member for BIRMINGHAM 1t
gets him ont of an awkward dilemma and removes
aim from the atmosphere of British politics at
r,me when it was beginning to be highly
dangerous to his constitution Had he re-
named he must lave chosen either of the three
courses any of which would have been fatal to his
political reputation. He must have gone over
bodily TO the Tories, or he must have renounced
,he Tory alliance altogether and sought readmis-
sion as a private soldier IN the ranks of the
Liberal party, or he must have maintained
his attitude of impotent isolation in which he was
Ioistrused and beginning to be disregarded by all
par les in which his power for mischief and his
power for good had become equally exhausted and
in which, had he continued, there WIS nothing
for him but certain decadence into
0Ishonor and oblivion. His friends and his OPP
ponents alike trust that his American trip may do
lin good. 1t will give him opportunity. which
he badly needed, of studying what he used to pre-
tend were his favorite Home Rule constitutions
on the spot. He will doubtless return
more enlightened and perhaps wiser man.
There are those among Radicals over here who
~1sh the Canadians. when they get him, IN " pre-
all on him 10 stay with them altogether. after the
Iample of Mr.. Goodwin Smith.
Talking of the Fishery Commission,
uderstand that another member of it is
be- Sir Sackvlle Wast. the British Minis
'er at Washington.
the best sign about the change of opinion IN the
country Is the inordinate citation of the TTIes
the Huntingdon election. They have managed to
get their man In, but in reality 1t Is no
victory except by contrast with the series of over
whemng defeats which preceded it. Indeed 1t is
quite the other way. Their majority has been re-
duced by seventy compared with the
figures IN 1885. A return to the figures
in 1885, as Mr.. Gladstone shows in his
Nineteenth Century" article, all over the country
would mean the return of the Liberals to power.
and In all the recent bye-elechons, including this,
the Liberals have vastly improved upon the fig
ures of 1855. Huntington was Tory stronghold.
which has been represented not merely by Tories
only but by members of the same family, for over
century and half. 1t was member of this family
who was the Tory candidate at the pres
ent election. Until the present election there
had hardly ever been such thing
as political meeting held in this
fossized constit uency. Moreover, the Influence of
this Fellowes family dominated every spring of life
throughout the district and the most striking
phenomenon of the election has been the ter
rife extent to which that influence has
been used Boycotting in Ireland is
mid expedient of the helpless compared with
the powerful and relentless boycott which the
Feowes fany nave been exercising Daring this
election the town of Rams,y which is their seat.
bas been in white terror, and 1t
Is that town to which they owe the
2s6 votes by which their candidate has
won bis seat All the rest OF the division gave a
majority TO the Liberal
The po icy OF the National Leag1e was so well
foreshadOwed in the interview with its secretary
which l sent on Moldav that haveno need to
dwell upon the remarkable meeting OF the
Central Branch which was held in Dublin yester-
day and at which William O'Brien sketches out
similar % an of action TP. GILL, NJ. =.